"So, what do you think of Mrs. Evans?" Mark asked his son, Ethan, at dinner. Ethan shrugged, nonchalantly picking at his food. Mark didn't want to get into it. He knew the name, a cold shudder running through him. Mrs. Evans. The one who had made Mark feel stupid every single day of fourth grade. He forced a smile and asked about Ethan's day. He was suddenly overwhelmed, the food tasting like ash in his mouth.

Emotion: troubled

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.20 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.81

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion troubled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 troubled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the troubled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the troubled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😞0.343
S0.317
ness0.302
😔0.294
😢0.272
Suppressed:
de-0.553
la-0.511
l-0.307
/-0.260
(!)-0.236